If you own a Kindle, the Send To Kindle extension is a useful way to collect interesting articles, blog posts, webpages, etc. to read later on your Kindle.  

To use, just navigate to the article or webpage you want to read later and click the Send to Kindle extension.  You are offered to option to send the article, preview it to make changes, and if you select only a part of a page, you can send just the selected part directly to your Kindle.  

You will need to sign in to your Amazon account for your items to be available to your Kindle.

Click to get Send to Kindle in the Chrome Store.

The Annotary extension offers several options for you to save and notate webpages.  After you set up your account, you can bookmark pages in Annotary with notes.  You can also create collections for organizing the bookmarks.  You can highlight webpages and then share them with people with your highlights as well.

This would be a great way to collect information for research or to do collaborative research.  They even have community bookmarks and highlights!


Click to get the Annotary extension in the Chrome Store. 

Readability is an extension that is particularly good for students (or people) who are easily distracted by a busy website. When you use Readability, it strips the advertisements, images, and other extraneous items from a webpage, so you can read just the article you want.

Some of the nice features of Readability are that you can save articles to read later, and you can send them to your Kindle.  You can also change the font and appearance of the article to make it more "readable" for you!

Click to get the Readability extension in the Chrome Store.

Save Text to Google Drive is a handy extension that takes saving webpages to your drive a step further.  When you use this extension, you are presented with all of the text on a given webpage.  You can cut out what is unnecessary (or unwanted) and save the text of the webpage directly to a Google Doc in your drive.  It even includes the link to the site for you, so you can go back to it at a later time if you need/want to.

What a great tool for students completing web research!

Click to get Save Text to Google Drive in the Chrome Store.